The Department of Energy (DOE) is urging Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) to strictly comply with all provisions of its power supply agreements (PSAs), particularly the 1,200-megawatt deal with Excellent Energy Resources Inc. (EERI), amid delays in the latter’s plant commissioning and fuel supply readiness.
SP New Energy Corp., the renewable energy subsidiary of MGen Renewable Energy Inc., has named Anthony Vergel Velasco as its new chief audit executive, strengthening its governance framework as it scales up its clean energy portfolio.
The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) has revised its power sales forecast this year to only 4.6 percent, signaling a weaker performance versus the previous year. The revised projection comes following an exceptional spike in demand due to the effects of El Niño in 2024, which is unlikely to repeat this year.
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has granted Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) provisional authority to implement a refund scheme amounting to P19.95 billion, covering an over-recovery of rates from 1 July 2022, to 31 December 2024. The scheme will be executed over 36 months, with refunds starting in the next billing cycle.
Meralco PowerGen Corp. renewable energy arm, MGEN Renewable Energy Inc. (MGreen), has successfully launched a 52.8-megawatt (MW) MGreen Cordon Solar power plant in Cordon, Isabela. This marks MGreen as one of the largest operational solar plants in the Cagayan Valley region under the Department of Energy's (DOE) second Green Energy Auction program.
The human heart is wonderfully reliable. It works nonstop, takes no sick leave, and rarely asks for attention. That reliability is exactly why its sudden silence can be so devastating.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered a significant shake-up of Malacañang’s economic and investment oversight, abolishing the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Investment and Economic Affairs (OSAPIEA) and folding its functions into the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES).
Airbus and Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) have successfully completed flight trials of a new crewed-uncrewed teaming capability at a Singapore airbase.
The Highlands Prime, Inc., the leisure residential arm of SM Prime Holdings, Inc., has completed Provence, a new residential enclave tucked within Tagaytay Midlands along Lakeside Fairways Drive in Talisay, Batangas.